Enduring voices :oral histories of the U.S. Army experience in Afghanistan, 2003-2005 /Christopher N. Koontz, general editor.

by: Washington, D.C. :Center of Military History, United States Army,; Koontz, Christopher N. (Christopher Noel)

Publication date: 2008

Topics: United States. Combined Forces Command--Afghanistan, United States. Combined Forces Command--Afghanistan, Afghan War (2001-), Afghan War, 2001-, Counterinsurgency, Postwar reconstruction, Oral history, Counterinsurgency, Oral history, Postwar reconstruction, Heer, Soldat, Afghanistankrieg (2001), Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American, Counterinsurgency Afghanistan, Oral history, Postwar reconstruction Afghanistan, United States Combined Forces Command--Afghanistan History

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, United States Army

Collection: uffamilysearch; univ_florida_smathers; americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries

Contributor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries

Language: English

Includes index

Foreword -- Preface -- 1: US army and Afghanistan, 2001-2005 -- 2: Planning and directing a campaign: General Barno in Afghanistan -- 3: Building the command -- 4: Waging war -- 5: Security and assistance -- Glossary -- Index -- Charts -- Maps -- Illustrations

"CHM Pub 70-112-1" -- T.p. verso

From GPO Bookstore: Contains an anthology of sixteen oral histories that chronicle the establishment of Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan. Includes a lengthy interview with Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, the first commander of the new headquarters, in which he discusses the strategic challenges of Afghanistan, the coordination of political and military efforts by his command, and the development and implementation of a counterinsurgency strategy that considered the complexity of the Afghan insurgency

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